Science subject and location tags

Saturday, 1 April 2017Off Track In a West Australian landscape billions of years old sits the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a cutting edge astronomical facility designed to listen to the dawn of time.Subjects: astronomy-space, telescopes, indepthfeature

Friday, 3 June 2016Gas giant Jupiter's famous red spot, and other stormy surface features extend 30 to 100 kilometres below the enigmatic surface of the gas giant, a new study has found.Subjects: planets-and-asteroids, telescopes, news

Wednesday, 27 April 2016Black holes Three colliding spiral galaxies 1.8 billion light years from Earth have produced a monster black hole weighing in at 3 billion times the mass of the Sun.Subjects: blackholes, telescopes, the-universe, galaxies, news

Thursday, 25 February 2016Merging stars A rare burst of energy lasting less than a millisecond that happened around six billion light-years ago in a galaxy far, far away has been tracked to its source by scientists for the first time.Subjects: astronomy-space, telescopes, space-exploration, galaxies, news

Wednesday, 10 February 2016Great attractor Hundreds of galaxies hidden from view behind the Milky Way have been unveiled in unprecedented detail for the first time by astronomers using Australia's Parkes Radio Telescope.Subjects: telescopes, the-universe, physics, stars, galaxies, news

Friday, 4 December 2015Solar flares For the first time scientists have seen how solar flares act as powerful accelerators, flinging particles into space at close to the speed of light in a matter of seconds.Subjects: telescopes, the-universe, physics, stars, news

Friday, 27 November 2015Death of a star Astronomers have witnessed for the first time a star the size of our Sun being completely ripped apart and destroyed by a supermassive black hole over just a few weeks.Subjects: blackholes, telescopes, the-universe, physics, stars, galaxies, news

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